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Welcome to BCA
Our aim
Please browse our website in order to learn more about the diverse experiences
enjoyed by students each week (fixtures, Community Day, reward tokens, homework,
extended learning, Project Phoenix, etc) and feel free to request further information
about any aspect. I hope to meet you one day and to join with you in achieving our
aim for all students.
Quality of Teaching, Learning and Assessment
AIM: All young people will experience consistently excellent learning experiences through
high standards of preparation, incisive feedback and positive relationships.
Staff will reflect on and debate the way they teach.
Personal Development, Behaviour and Safety
AIM: All young people will feel safe and supported through an ethos of Respect,
Friendship and Excellence and through effective systems of intervention and prevention.
Students will act to keep themselves safe in all contexts.
Our aim is
for all
students
to realise,
pursue and
achieve their
full potential,
enabling them
to thrive as
adults.
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With these Community names (Respect, Friendship and Excellence) our values
are intrinsically linked to our structures and to everything we do. Students of all
abilities are successful at BCA as we take pride in ensuring students are educated in
a safe environment with no limits placed upon their experience and outcomes. 98%
of parents who send their child to BCA would recommend the academy to another
parent. This statistic testifies of the commitment and dedication to the needs of each
individual child and we invite you to come and look around the academy at any time
to discover more about this for yourself.
Outcomes for Pupils
AIM: All young people will realise, pursue and achieve their potential, making at least
expected progress,where there is equity of opportunity for students no matter
what their background or family circumstance.
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Our aim is for all students to realise, pursue and
achieve their full potential, enabling them to thrive
as adults. Our ethos is based around our community
structure where each child is supported by a team of
dedicated and experienced staff.
Overall Effectiveness
AIM: All young people will enjoy a stimulating and meaningful learning experience in an
environment which has purpose and investment; inspiring commetment and belonging.
Students will value their education.
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It is my pleasure and honour to introduce you
to this vibrant academy where students from all
backgrounds and starting points enjoy learning in an
environment of growth and belief.
In order to ensure that students benefit from the education provided by the
academy we have a number of key aims:
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Effectiveness of Leadership and Management
AIM: All young people will enjoy interaction with adults within a culture that enables
students and staff to excel. Staff will model a growth mind-set, equal opportunity
and diversity exceptionally well.
Regards,
Adam Williams
Principal
Bath Community Academy
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Creating time for students to be with older and younger students each day helps
to develop each of the qualities and characteristics shown below as they practice
empathy, consideration and aspiration. After an initial period of Year 7 being
taught together, they begin to mix with years 8 & 9 as best suits their pace and
level of challenge, abilities, skills and interests. This structure is having a clear
impact upon the quality of the lessons that staff are able to plan as well as the
learning experience and progress of the students.
The new pastoral system, with mixed age tutor groups and communities based on
the themes of respect, friendship and excellence, and a regular focus in assemblies
on celebrating success and valuing effort are both helping to raise self-esteem.
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Rewards
By praising effort, all children have the chance
to succeed in the classroom. This leads to all
students realising, pursuing and achieving their
full potential.
Students are awarded with a red token when
they are seen displaying a community based
virtue and these are posted into their community
box in a race to be the first community to fill it.
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In the best lessons expectations are high and the teacher uses information from assessment to
provide different work for students of different abilities.
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Staff provide written feedback to students, who are expected to in turn respond
to the advice and comments the teacher makes. Students say that this dialogue is
helping them to know how to improve.
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Students who have special educational needs are afforded an outstanding
provision located in dedicated spaces allowing students to learn in environments
that are more appropriate to
their learning style as well as
to provide a quiet and calm
by showing a strong interest in your own learning
place during busy periods of
by making significant progress
the day. This provision is led
by behaving in a way that promotes effective learning
by a SENCO who, along with
by positively influencing other students
a dedicated team of Learning
Support Assistants, work
by showing interest in learning for most of the lesson
closely alongside parents
by making clear progress
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Aspirations are rising and there is a tangible sense of optimism and purpose.
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Students are given the opportunity to remain within the academy beyond the school
day in order to spend further time developing their understanding within any of
the subject areas. This extended learning provision is a feature of the academy
which we prioritise highly as for some students this can be when some of their best
progress is made.
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Friday afternoons are organised differently: Project Phoenix is an enrichment
programme for all students to opt into their chosen activity. The range of options,
led by both staff and other adults who work in partnership with us, ensures that all
students can find something to suit their preferences. The Project Phoenix options
can be seen on the academy website.
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– Maths
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– English
Wednesday –a rotation of homework from Creative Design, Performance, World
Affairs and Sciences.
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Homework is used to compliment the learning in the classroom such that students can
retain more of what they learn as well as support them in deepening their understanding.
Students are issued with homework as follows:
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Keeping up to date with progress
Parents are able to keep up to date on a daily basis with the effort their child has been
making across all of their lessons by using the ‘Your Child’s Progress’ button on the
academy website. This provides parents with access to software which provides a
summary of the lesson scores from that day as well as a series of other useful pieces of
data about progress and effort over a period of time.
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Homework is also a great opportunity to foster independent study. To this end, the
Academy has purchased a subscription to the I Am Learning website. Here, students can
log on and learn new topics by accessing the vast repository of interactive revision content.
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Sport
We are proud that every CLF academy has shown marked improvement since opening, or
joining the CLF, as identified by Ofsted. Our work is changing the educational landscape
across the region; in the Federation we believe that students come first and that every
child can find a route to happiness, prosperity and success.
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Through Core PE lessons and Project Phoenix sessions students are trained and prepared
for fixtures against local schools within Bath and Bristol, these fixtures range from Rugby
and Netball to Trampolining and Wheel Chair Rugby.
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Welcome to the Cabot Learning Federation (CLF). Our partnership
is sponsored by Rolls-Royce PLC and the University of the West
of England (UWE). Our Federation consists of 13 academies in
Bristol, Bath and Weston-super-Mare: six secondary and five
primary academies, one all-through academy and a Studio
School. We also have an overarching CLF Post 16 and specialist
inclusion centres. Together we educate 7000 children between the
ages of 1 and 19 and the Federation enjoys steady growth.
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Physical Education lessons at BCA provides students with the opportunities to be creative,
compete, develop social skills and challenge themselves in a range of practical lessons. We
pride ourselves on offering a broad curriculum that caters for every child. Among the local
community we are well known for our performances in Parkour and Cheer Leading: these
activities break the barriers between students of all ages and enhance our ethos of Respect,
Friendship and Excellence.
The Cabot Learning Federation
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The Federation was created to enable staff to work more closely together to deliver the
best education possible for the students who attend our academies. We are proud of the
improvements we have seen in test and exam results and more of our students than ever
before have qualifications that compare favourably with other young people in the city
and across the South West. This has enabled us to develop a Federation Sixth form with
over 700 students staying in full time education after their GCSE courses have finished.
As a teaching School and a National Maths Hub, we have developed a network of over
600 schools.
Our vision is simple: we believe that by working together rather than in isolation we can
be an Educator of Choice for pupils and their families. Our commitment to high
expectations and standards, a high contemporary curriculum and excellent teaching
means that we can create more opportunities for the lifelong success for our students as
they become young adults.
Steve Taylor
Chief Executive
Cabot Learning Federation
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Bath Community Academy y Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QL y Tel: 01225 426268
www.bathcommunityacademy.org
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